For those who argue that there is, in fact, only one English attended by innumerable (and insufferable) bastardized forms, all of which need to be eradicated, the language-as-standard represents an idealization of both past and future, a nostalgia for that which never was and a yearning for that which never can or ever will be. English-only is a place where there isn’t any trouble- where all the visible and audible signs of difference have been effaced, where we all understand one another because we are all exactly the same. As a result, any privileges possessed by individuals or groups are, as myth has long held, earned; the stories we tell and the stories we hear confirm and affirm a triumphalist national narrative. This narrative disguises, however, the conditions, stipulations for entrance, for recognition, for belonging within the story of an Us.

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

According to those who study the science of human learning, it occurs only when there is both retention and transfer. Retention involves the ability to actually remember what was presumably “learned” more than two weeks beyond the end of the term. Transfer is the ability to use and apply that knowledge for subsequent understanding and analysis. Based on this definition, there is not much learning taking place in college courses.